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Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
American director Woody Allen began shooting his latest movie in Paris on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.” 
After Wimbledon Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova came to Belarus. 
Strong chanses of Sochi to host 2014 Winter Olympics · 2007-01-10 16:41
The race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics goes into a decisive phase Wednesday with the deadline for the three cities in the running to hand over their bids to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Pyeongchang in South Korea, Salzburg in Austria and the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi are the candidates hoping to persuade the IOC of their merits.
The delegation of Sochi, including Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny and four-time Olympic swimming champion Alexander Popov, arrived in Lausanne to hand in the documents.
Alexander Popov told RIA Novosti: " The chances of Sochi are very strong, so we should take this chance, not miss it."
The cities will later be visited by the IOC’s evaluation commission. The tour to Sochi is planned for February 2007, official web-site of Sochi 2014 informs. The host city of 2014 Winter Olympics will be announced this July in Guatemala.
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